Chelsea
manager Jose Mourinho is urging his players to forget their FA Cup exit to
Bradford and focus on their Capital One semi-final second leg with Liverpool
on Tuesday evening.
The Blues were shocked 4-2 by the League One side at Stamford Bridge on
Saturday but Mourinho, who branded that performance a 'disgrace,' is
demanding his players brush it off and turn their 1-1 first-leg draw at
Anfield into an aggregate win.
"The next game is the most important one," Mourinho told the Chelsea
website.
"We need to forget this one and start the next game in a different
competition, and I know we are one victory away from playing a final.
"It's the good thing about playing consecutive matches without many days in
between. It's the good thing that, when you lose, you have to focus
immediately on the next game.
"You don't have a lot of time to be moaning or analysing what happened in
the bad one. Let's move and let's think about the next one.
"At the end of May we don't go to Wembley to play the FA Cup final, that's
for sure. The FA Cup is finished for us. We don't go there even to play the
FA Cup semi-final. It's over for us.
"To go there - and I think that should mean a lot to everyone - the last
chance we have is this one, to play there in the Capital One Cup final."
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